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  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

"dynamic trajectories" perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Gap, Inc., 2000

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, by 2000 Gap, Inc. had grown to become the world's leading specialist clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap into a global empire, leading the company... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Performance Consistency; Problems and Challenges; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

and shapers of, beauty ideals. It uses case studies of three prominent firms to support the argument. During the nineteenth century, Coty and other French firms imagined Paris as the global capital of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Jim Aisner, Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. Jim Aisner: With me today is Harvard Business School professor Joseph Bower, an expert on corporate strategy and leadership. His most recent research focuses on CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

finance. These subject areas were viewed as particularly valuable, not only for corporate/transactional lawyers, but also for litigators. Intriguingly, non-traditional courses and skills, such as business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9

International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22-23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions covering topics such as school choice, markets View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

Competitiveness Institute, Hanoi/Singapore, December 2010 Abstract The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

to the company's future. I argue that there may be a geographic solution to this dilemma. In such a solution, a fast-growing emerging market plays a central role in orchestrating a complete strategy for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

the practice of business strategy for 30 years. The problem lies instead in what strategic leaders are not trained to do. In caricature, Porter's view casts strategists as practitioner economists who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

the heart of the company's competitive position. Transaction service firms link their customers for a wide variety of purposes, such as risk sharing, financial transactions or communication. The composition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

—that probably should not be squeezed as tightly as possible because they do seem to be able to truly add value. Q: Any suggestions for what our business readers should ask themselves when they look around their own headquarters? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

different non-work identity management strategies-namely assenting to, complying with, resisting, or inverting the pressures-and delineate the consequences of these strategies for people and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2022
  • Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Labor Markets; Freelancers; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Employment; Digital Platforms; Global Range; Adoption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Employment Industry; Information Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines
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  • 16 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

  PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to provide evidence on the importance of auditors' reputation for quality in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Around one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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